Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.58
January 25, 2022
…in potential improvements such as contact force feedback, robotic manipulation of the second catheter used for ultrasonic mapping, and simulation for more efficient guidance and workflows. According to medical literature, the Genesis RMN system has been documented to improve patient care. Source: Stereotaxis BJC HealthCare also adopts RMN Like HonorHealth, BJC HealthCare recently adopted Stereotaxis' technology for arrhythmia treatment. BJC, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the U.S., became the first provider in the Midwest to adopt the Genesis RMN system. BJC installed the system in its Missouri Baptist Medical Center and plans to install a second unit…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.29
January 20, 2022
…in changing warehouse environments and automatically adjusts to complex manipulation tasks. Apart from this, RIOS Intelligent Machines provides factory automation-as-a-service solutions for the food industry.” Source: StartUs Insights RIOS develops smart sorting robots, food-grade workcells RIOS Intelligent Machines said its sorting robots can address the significant labor shortage and labor-intensive processes, such as sorting food items. The company said its workcells can work in changing warehouse environments and interact with objects in both static and dynamic applications. In addition, RIOS said it manufactures food-grade workcells to automate manual tasks of handling and sorting food. Quality control, item handling, and tray…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.82
January 16, 2022
…more energy-efficient robot arms are a prerequisite for mobile manipulation. Do you see Doosan serving such tasks? Kim: Our company is trying to make our robot very familiar to everyone for easy usage. One of our major objectives is making apps that can be used by mobile phone. We've got people from Samsung and LG, and such mobile apps for easy robot control could be on the market in one or two years. We're pretty sure our robots are pretty safe, since they've passed the highest level of testing. We're working on making it happen with the software next. Doosan…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.61
January 05, 2022
…we shouldn't be doing, like the navigation stack or manipulation,” noted Linnell. “We partnered with PickNik Robotics for mobile manipulation, making it dead simple for users to check a box.” Interest growing in field robotics “We're seeing a lot of interest in agriculture, which has a severe labor shortage, semistructured environments, and the mechanics are relatively solved,” said Linnell. “We're working with folks like John Deere and a whole bunch of startups, as fleets double and triple. We're changing the ratio from one person behind a robot to one farmer in a truck managing four and eventally one person in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.95
January 05, 2022
RE2 Robotics Inc., a leading developer of mobile manipulation systems, today looked back at its accomplishments of the past year and shared its outlook for the year ahead. “Despite the challenges of the continuing pandemic, I am incredibly proud of our team’s dedication and the progress we made this year across all areas of our organization,” stated Jorgen Pedersen, president and CEO of RE2. “In addition to celebrating the company’s milestone 20th anniversary, we significantly grew our engineering staff, secured our largest defense contract to date, and advanced our work with strategic partners in the aviation, construction, energy, and medical…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.56
January 03, 2022
…stack expanding the capabilities of mobile robots, drones, robotic manipulation, and autonomous vehicles. What will the new year bring? Murali Gopalakrishna, head of product management and autonomous machines, as well as general manager for robotics at NVIDIA Corp., has some ideas. Gopalakrishna leads the business development team that focuses on robots, drones, the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and enterprise collaboration products. He holds a bachelor of engineering from the National Institute of Engineering in India. Before joining NVIDIA in 2016, Gopalakrishna was the global head of platform and technology strategy, leading the chief technology officer's office at Sony Mobile…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.09
December 31, 2021
…June 2021. Unitree develops lightweight robot arm For mobile manipulation to be viable, robot arms need to be lighter, more cost-effective, and safer than their cousins in heavy industry. Unitree said its new Z1 robot arm can move smoothly and pick up small objects, open doors, fasten screws, and even pour a glass of wine. The company said its collaborative robot arm has potential industrial, retail service, and consumer applications. “With it, the omnipotent robot dog is even more powerful,” the company claimed. “As time goes by, the combination of robot dog and collaborative robotics arm can do more and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.61
December 28, 2021
…serve applications such as materials handling, disinfection, and mobile manipulation. YouiBot, also known as Youai Zhihe Robot, said it has partnered with brands such as LUXSHARE ICT, ASM, CRRC, FAST, China Huaneng, AICC, COMAC, and Hitachi. The company covers 26 provinces and cities in China, and it exports its products to more than 30 countries, including Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, and Germany. YouiBot focuses on industrial applications YouiBot claimed that it is a leader in understanding customer processes and use cases. The company said its AMR positioning and navigation algorithms provide high precision and reliability. It added that it is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.02
December 17, 2021
…provide customers the necessary data collection, analytics, and subsea manipulation capabilities to support and maintain assets while significantly reducing their operational footprint, operating cost, and greenhouse gas emissions, to improve offshore health, safety, and environmental exposure. Nauticus said its fleet of autonomous robots is able to operate from the surface to the seabed with the Nauticus Software Suite, an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform. The company said its first product, Aquanaut, is “the world’s first tetherless underwater robot capable of robust decision making for both long-distance ocean data collection and close-in dexterous manipulation.” CLAQ recognizes Nauticus growth potential Nauticus'…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.50
December 01, 2021
…safety sensing capabilities needed for safely carrying out pallet manipulation tasks throughout a facility. How does the 3D perception compare with the Palion's previous performance? Christensen: The Seegrid Palion Lift features the most advanced generation of Seegrid IQ, fusing data from cameras, lidar, and machine learning models with the company’s proprietary 3D computer vision technology to provide safe and reliable material handling. All Seegrid AMRs use sophisticated computation to see a three-dimensional world just like humans do. Palion Lift needs to not only navigate its environment, but also interface with the surrounding infrastructure—pallets, tables, conveyors, racks, etc.—in the vertical direction,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.27
November 29, 2021
…are usually done by humans, such as assembly, fine manipulation, polishing, or sanding,” explained Pham Quang Cuong, an associate professor at NTU Singapore and co-founder of Eureka Robotics. “These tasks all share a common characteristic: the ability to maintain consistent contact with a surface.” “If our human hands are deprived of our touch sensitivity, such as when wearing a thick glove, we would find it very hard to put tiny Lego blocks together, much less assemble the tiny components of a car engine or of a camera used in our mobile phones,” said Pham, who is also the deputy director…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.68
November 16, 2021
…through a single control system. The Coupled Locomotion and Manipulation System, or CLAMS Project, will combine the control systems for the robotic arms and the ROV into one unit, improving coordination of the underwater manipulator and the ROV’s movements, said the company. “The goal of CLAMS is to improve control of our RE2 Sapien Sea Class arms mounted on the VideoRay Defender ROV by addressing the two components as a unified system,” stated David Lee, director of product management at RE2 Robotics. “This will allow topside operators to have more control over semi-autonomous operations while the integrated system is working…
